If you look through the list of Victoria’s 50 best bars here, you’ll see that despite the wide range of experiences and aesthetics they offer — we’ve got everything from high-end temples of the art of the cocktail, to down and dirty dives (and everywhere in between) — the thread that brings them all together is passion and an emphasis on hospitality.
How did we get the list? The best way to find bars to visit is to ask the bartender in front of you. In August, we put out the call for nominations, with a view to discovering the best bars across Victoria. These nominations were then voted on by an advisory panel of over 100 Victorian bartenders and bar figures, each voter choosing their seven favourite bars. These really are the best bars in Victoria according to the people who know them best: bartenders.
If you like your coffee with an a sidecar of alpine amaro in the side, this might be the coffee cocktail you love. Braulio here is shaken with citrus and
“I wanted to create a fun and approachable twist on an Absinthe Frappe,” James says. “The name came from a passing joke when tasting the drink and me exclaiming that
This drink comes to us from one of Australia’s best bars, Caretaker’s Cottage in Melbourne. Created by Kitty Gardiner, Darren Leaney, and Tom McHugh, the drink is “inspired
File this under When Two Drinks Collide. This drink from Honeydripper in Adelaide is what you get when you take the Garibaldi from Dante in New York, and make it
